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Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

'Exact' Realism or 'Wild' Romanticism in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

her only companion during her convent days, she quickly discovers her own life does not imitate art. She learns that it is a mans...

Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

Supernatural and the Romantic in Works by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

Romantic Poet: Wordsworth

blowing on my body, felt within/ A correspondent breeze, that gently moved/ With quickening virtue" (Wordsworth I: 33-36). In thi...

Death of Ivan & Faust

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

Possibilities of Love and Change in "Wide Sargasso Sea"

aspects of life. The opening pages of the novel take us to Jamaica, and they are very evocative. They tell us of the beautiful, l...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

Development of Literature in the Romantic Era

the "German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Romantic era). Rousseau was a man who introduced the notion of a noble savage, of ...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Newman and Rousseau: Victorian and Romantic Ideas of Religion

support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...

Romantic Poets

his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...

The Modern Vampire

nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Romantic Themes in William Wordsworth’s Poem ‘Tintern Abbey’

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

The Role of Women During the Enlightenment and the Romantic Eras

the Age of Enlightenment was formed, at its core, by "Empiricism and a rationalistic doctrine of natural rights... they also held ...

Annie Hall, An Unromantic Comedy

This essay pertains to Annie Hall (1977), which was directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The writer maintains that this was a g...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Music During the Romantic Era

swung between the desire to keep emotion under the control of reason and the desire for free, uninhibited expression (Machlis, 197...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Romantic, Platonic and Family Relationships

this type of relationship is allowed, since its not likely that every time a person is attracted sexually to a partner, that perso...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

A Midsummer Night's Dream and William Shakespeare's Humorous Approach to Love

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

Storm Paintings by Watteau and Delacroix

workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...

Wordsworth and Pushkin and Romanticism

and how the "friendly rustling murmur" (line 30) of the pine trees always welcomed him home. Another aspect of Romantic verse is...

Shakespeare’s “True Union”

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...